A Mothers Tale

My name is Hazel Woodhouse and last year my 10 year old daughter was diagnosed with lung cancer. It started during a family vacation in the Canary Islands, but has continued to grow ever since. Every day I wake up praying that ‘today will be different’, but it never is. There are always the same appointments, same support group meetings and the same pain. It just lingers in our lives, never seeming to want to go away. Most cancer story's are from the child's perspective, and how they cope with their terrible fate. But this is my story – from a mothers perspective. No one really thinks about how the parents are affected from their child's misfortune – they just assume that they feel sad and depressed. No words can explain the pain I feel when I watch my precious little baby struggle their way through life, knowing that one day they will be gone forever.